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NBN Episodes hosted by Todd:
Intellectual History
February 3, 2016
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents
A Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia
Tam Ngo and Justine B. Quijada, eds.
Hosted by
Todd Weir
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal Asad, there is a growing literature that traces the …
Intellectual History
December 11, 2015
The Past as History
National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe
Stefan Berger
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Todd Weir
A historiographical paradigm opened in the late 1970s with groundbreaking works on nationalism. To a large extent these were constructivist interpretations, which drew heavily on literary criticism. Since then it …
Intellectual History
November 18, 2014
Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany 1880-1914
Edward Ross Dickinson
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Todd Weir
In this interview with historian Edward Ross Dickinson we talk about sex. Well, actually we talk about the talk about sex. Since Michel Foucault's epochal work History of Sexuality (1976) …
Science, Technology, and Society
October 30, 2014
The Romantic Machine
Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
John Tresch
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Todd Weir
After the Second World War, the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs described National Socialism as a triumph of irrationalism and a "destruction of reason." It has since become commonplace to interpret …
Intellectual History
September 26, 2014
The Third Reich Sourcebook
Anson Rabinbach and Sander Gilman, eds.
Hosted by
Todd Weir
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical …
Intellectual History
July 15, 2014
The Modernity of Others
Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France
Ari Joskowicz
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Todd Weir
In 1873, the German scientist Rudolf Virchow declared in Parliament that liberals were locked in a Kulturkampf, a "culture war" with the forces of Catholicism, which he viewed as the …
Intellectual History
March 28, 2014
Empire and Underworld
Captivity in French Guiana
Miranda Spieler
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Todd Weir
In Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana (Harvard University Press, 2012), historian Miranda Spieler tells of the transformation of a slave plantation colony into a destination for metropolitan convicts …
Intellectual History
February 14, 2014
The Philosophy of Life and Death
Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Nitzan Lebovic
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Todd Weir
Thomas Mann referred to Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) as a "criminal philosopher," a "Pan-Germanist," "an irrationalist," a "Tarzan philosopher," "a cultural pessimist... the voice of the world's downfall." Yet, Walter Benjamin …
Intellectual History
January 30, 2014
Adam's Ancestors
Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins
David N. Livingstone
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Todd Weir
A report to the General Assembly of Scottish Presbyterians of 1923 contains the following passage: "God placed the people of this world in families, and history which is the narrative …
Intellectual History
January 14, 2014
The Last Utopia
Human Rights in History
Samuel Moyn
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Todd Weir
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press 2010) takes the reader on a sweeping journey through the history of international law from the ancient world to the …
Intellectual History
December 12, 2013
Socialism and Religion
Roads to Common Wealth
Vincent Geoghegan
Hosted by
Todd Weir
"Christianity and socialism go together like fire and water," remarked August Bebel, Germany's leading socialist, in 1874. The anticlerical violence of revolutions in Mexico, Russia, and Spain in the early …